St Paul the Martyr

St Paul the MartyrSt Paul the Martyr, who suffered for Christ at Caesarea in Palestine, is depicted in this mounted icon by Deacon Paul Drozdowski in the Jordanville tradition. Among the many martyrs of the early Church who have been glorified, St Paul of Caesarea is a reminder of the blood that watered the growth of the Christian faith. A quality icon from Damascene Gallery.

Vasily Perov's haunting 1868 painting "The Last Tavern at the Gate" shows horses and sledge-drivers waiting in the snow outside a tavern at the edge of a Russian town — a quiet but deeply melancholic image of Russian village life and human longing

hymnographer

is depicted in this mounted icon by Archimandrite Cyprian Pyzhov in the Jordanville tradition

His feast is August 7

"Prayer" presents a scene of royal devotion — a coronation prayer — a powerful image of the Orthodox tradition's integration of faith and statecraft

nourished by an angel and a miraculous palm tree

founded the Danilov Monastery in Moscow in the 13th century — the oldest monastery in the city and the spiritual seedbed from which Moscow's monastic life would flourish

the Theotokos directs the faithful toward her Son

St Peter is venerated as a protector of Moscow and the Russian Church

warm palette characteristic of the Lavra school

In this Hodegetria image

who retired from his bishop's see to a monastery to devote himself to prayer and writing